GEMS stands for Girls Excelling in Mathematics and Science, we are currently a female based program of year nine girls. Our goal as GEMS is to achieve a high understanding of science and mathematics among students. We are striving to achieve a higher percentage of women in science, maths, engineering and technology based areas.

We believe that in one year we will be in a position where we can compete against other schools and achieve higher results than at least two competitors. Additionally, we would like to complete one large task and be completely student run. We also aim to gain at least ten year sevens interested in joining our program. We have found a group of enrichment students at Cromer Campus that are interested in working with us on a STEM project.

We would like to have initial funding of approximately $200. This would be put towards needed supplies, merchandise and advertising.

We are looking to expand even more in the next 2-4 years through a stronger school presence and promoting ourselves through social media . During this period of time we would like to gain a larger group of students ranging across all school years.

We aim over five years to extend our previous goals over a longer time-frame. We want to help increase the percentage of women in science and be able to compete in STEM competitions with confidence. We aim to have a higher understanding of the tasks and challenges we will face, and obtain the ability to overcome these challenges.

Our future goals consist of creating a sustainable program and gaining new students each year. We will be able to achieve this through speaking at orientation days about the program, as well as making announcements in assemblies and during morning notifications. We strive to run primary school competitions here at Cromer. This would involve writing the criteria, judging the tasks and providing constructive criticism.

We hope that with your help, we can achieve these goals in the future.